The McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, are experiencing rapid landscape scale change including increased glacial melt, the expansion of water tracks, thermokarst formation, an increase in the extent of the soil active layer, lake level rise, and altered stream flow. The impacts of these changes for biological communities are currently unknown. The goal of this study was to conduct surveys and experiments in three Dry Valley soil habitats that are expected to undergo change: water tracks, lake margins, and active layer profiles.
Date Range:
2015-12-15 to 2015-12-17
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DOI:
10.6073/pasta/7cbbb5e9182ed1dfae4e89aef6de41c4
Dataset ID:
262